bring a prehistoric pet home

Hi, I’m Patricia- writer, artist, and full-time mommy of 4 little youngsters under 6. Life is a joyful mess. 😀

Pete’s Paleo Petshop is a children’s picture book series, set in a world where you can visit the shop to meet your very own prehistoric friend. At the moment time has stopped in the Jurassic period, the “golden age” of the dinosaurs, but this is only the beginning. Over time I’ll be expanding the series so you can meet all sorts of amazing animals- anything from giant T-rex and woolly mammoth, to tiny and beautiful creatures from the dawn of time.

On the 1st of each month, we have our Critter-of-the-Month, where you can meet one of the many paleo-pets Pete cares for in the shop. 🙂

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It is a new year, so here are a probable list of eight plans for you this year and the near future:
1. You to appear in the book series as the co-founder of the shop.
2. A schedule for introducing new critters: 2 new critters every two weeks.
3. A book series, in which you commission paleo-artists to do illustrations, can go for your regular book series. This acts as a review for each “wave”
4. Start a figure line of scientifically accurate figures, also try to go for obscure critters in toy lines.
5. Create fact files for each figure.
6. Give us hints for what the latest additions (creatures) to the shop.
7. Update your topic on the DinoToyBlog forum (if you can).
8. Take online suggestions for each critter you will introduce.

Hi Paleoteen, that’s quite the list! Thank you for stopping by and chatting with me 🙂

1. I actually do appear in some of the short stories I’ve posted! I’m the woman who is Pete’s assistant. 😀 In the picture book illustrations, the family looking for the perfect prehistoric pet is actually my own (back when I had 3 kids instead of 4, soon to be 5 lol 😀 )

2. A schedule for introducing new critters is a good idea. I’ll have to think on that one. But it’ll have to be something like every 3 or 4 months instead of every 2 weeks.

3. I currently have 2 book series in progress! One is the picture book series that will feature each of Earth’s prehistoric time periods (plus our own possibly featuring critters like the quagga and dodo). The 2nd is a series of short story collections featuring the critters’ adventures at the shop. 🙂 I have lots of other ideas too, but you can only have so many pans in the fire!

4. I would love, love, love to do this! Alas, my skills in sculpting are quite lacking, so this will have to wait for a time when I have enough money to hire a sculptor, or enough people who know about the series to justify making little sculptures. But they would most likely be stylized versions of the characters, and not 100% accurate. 🙂

5. Some of the critters here at the shop already have fact file pages! I’m slowly working on getting them all their own critter page, but I can make sure to work on them a bit more this year. 🙂

6. You can get hints for the most likely future additions to the shop at my Instagram @paleopetshop 😀

7. Ooh, I definitely need to do this. It’s been too long! 😀

8. I welcome suggestions of Jurassic critters, and you just might see them have their first appearance over at my Instagram, but it may still be a while before they are officially introduced here on the site. 🙂

Thank you so much for your feedback! I’ll definitely think about it and see what I can do. 🙂

Well, it will be great. Also, do you mean 2 critter every three months? Because I am slightly confused. Also, try to edit the fact files and give the right species name to each animal. Also, how about 220 creatures from the Jurassic. Remember to add Jobaria, Mongolarachne, Vieraella, Sordes, and Ophthalmosaurus.

1 critter every 3 months, maybe, I need to think about that one and see what is realistic for me to do. As for species, I only have the genus for each animal given because technically each critter is a domesticated mix of the traits of different species. So unless one of the critters is based on a specific species it is only given its genus name.

I plan on adding as many critters as I can during the time I’m exploring the Jurassic, so aside from that I don’t have a specific number in mind. But I’ll definitely add those critters to the list for consideration! 🙂

And that’s the priority list! Not to mention the number of Jurassic critters known, though I think I’ll steer clear of the ones with only fragmentary remains. There’s not enough information to go by aside from a generic relation to a particular genus.

Do you have names for all of them? This excludes Pearl the Othnielosaurus, Kali the Kentrosaurus, Monica the Monolophosaurus, Tanner the Torvosaurus, Murray the Muraenosaurus, Clyde the Cryptoclidus, and Lionel the Liopleurodon.

I’m afraid that Lexovisaurus has very few remains. There are so many other more well known stegosaurs I would like to draw that this one would be pretty low on the priority list. Megalosaurus is another problematic animal for the same reason, but because of its history in paleontology I will definitely be doing research on what is known about it to try and reconstruct it. 🙂

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